House of Peers

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Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel."

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Returning to Japan the Prince took his seat in the House of Peers in 1890, and in 1903 succeeded his brother-in-law as President.

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Now, in Washington, Japan's first music maestro, whose elder brother, Prince Funimaro Konoye, heads the Japanese House of Peers, made cultural face for his country such as no Japanese had ever made before.

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There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature.

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It was merely revised by the Chamber of Deputies, which had been one of the movers of the revolution, and by what remained of the House of Peers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various